All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Oh, Constellations of the early night That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have seen Your… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest.… — Mary Lawson Copy Share Image
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George.… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have… — Avicii Copy Share Image
God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing,… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
To my surprise, I recognized Dimitri Belikov-Rose's boyfriend-among those doing crowd control. He was easy to spot since he was almost always… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the… — Eminem Copy Share Image
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image